At a press conference on Friday to praise declines in U.S. unemployment rates, President Donald Trump briefly highlighted his plans to address the country’s widespread protests against police brutality, saying, “Our country is so strong and that’s what my plan is: we’re going to have the strongest economy in the world.”

Germany’s governing parties have agreed on a 130 billion euro ($146 billion) stimulus package meant to help kick-start Europe’s biggest economy, which has taken a heavy hit from the coronavirus pandemic

Parisians returned to the City of Light’s beloved sidewalk cafes as the French government eased lockdown restrictions Tuesday, but across the ocean, health experts expressed deep concerns as several Latin American countries opted to reopen their economies despite a rapid rise in coronavirus cases.

The coronavirus likely will sap about $7.9 trillion of economic activity over the next decade-plus even with all of the rescue funding being poured in to offset the pandemic’s impact, according to a government estimate Monday. Through fiscal 2030, the virus will reduce real economic output — nominal GDP adjusted for inflation — by 3% from initial economic estimates in January before…

With new U.S. economic numbers highlighting the rough road ahead for a hoped-for rebound, President Donald Trump took aim at the World Health Organization and China, blaming both for their roles in the pandemic’s devastation

The coronavirus pandemic has caused consumer spending, the economy’s key driver, to plummet across the country as Americans struggle through a recession. But some states are recovering more quickly than others. Statewide stay-at-home orders first froze the economy in mid March. For that month, the Commerce Department said consumer spending fell 7.5%, the sharpest monthly drop on records that go…

President Donald Trump has a new pitch to voters for this fall. He’s asking them to trust him when it comes to an economic recovery. The coronoavirus pandemic has put more than 38 million people out of work in the United States, and Trump is increasingly talking up a future recovery that probably won’t materialize until after the November...